Bill Richardson Embraces Socialism

J.J. Jackson* | August 13, 2007

No surprise here. Richardson is a socialist? Like that’s a shocker!

WASHINGTON — Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico became the latest presidential contender yesterday to embrace a requirement that all Americans get health insurance, releasing a plan he said would cut healthcare costs and cover all Americans without raising taxes.

Richardson’s plan would expand existing programs to cover more young people, those near retirement, and veterans. It would offer Medicare as a choice to Americans age 55 to 64, and would expand Medicaid and SCHIP coverage for children in poor families. Young adults as old as 25 would have the option of staying in their parents’ healthcare plans. And a new “Heroes Health Card” would be offered to veterans — assuring them, the Democratic governor said, of less bureaucracy and “the same decent medical coverage that so many of us civilians take for granted.”

Whether or not you can do it without raising taxes is irrelevant. Please, someone show me and the rest of America where in the Constitution these powers are granted to the federal government? Where in the explicit powers of Article I of the Constitution did we give the do-gooders in Washington this kind of authority?

Please, someone try and explain this. I need a good laugh and it might as well be at you.

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